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requirements.md

Specification Quality Checklist: CLI Boundary Robustness

Purpose: Validate specification completeness and quality before proceeding to planning Created: 2026-09-16 Feature: spec.md

Content Quality

  • ✅ No implementation details (languages, frameworks, APIs)
  • ✅ Focused on user value and business needs
  • ✅ Written for non-technical stakeholders
  • ✅ All mandatory sections completed

Requirement Completeness

  • ✅ No [NEEDS CLARIFICATION] markers remain
  • ✅ Requirements are testable and unambiguous
  • ✅ Requirement types are separated (Functional / Non-Functional / Constraints)
  • ✅ IDs are unique across FR-###, NFR-###, and C-### entries
  • ✅ All requirement rows include a non-empty Status value
  • ✅ Non-functional requirements include measurable thresholds
  • ✅ Success criteria are measurable
  • ✅ Success criteria are technology-agnostic (no implementation details)
  • ✅ All acceptance scenarios are defined
  • ✅ Edge cases are identified
  • ✅ Scope is clearly bounded
  • ✅ Dependencies and assumptions identified

Feature Readiness

  • ✅ All functional requirements have clear acceptance criteria
  • ✅ User scenarios cover primary flows
  • ✅ Feature meets measurable outcomes defined in Success Criteria
  • ✅ No implementation details leak into specification

Notes

surfaces (--json, exit codes, stdout/stderr, the config file) appear in requirements as behavior/contract, not implementation. Framework internals are described by their observable symptom (an "internal argument placeholder" leaking as a value), not by leaning on framework class names in requirement wording. Defect sites (file:line) and the specific shared-helper/gate mechanisms are deliberately deferred to /spec-kitty.plan.

discipline) was ratified via Decision Moment 01M2NQDWFQ6HY5A8A90VQ0E69H (honor the test-frozen #4242 precedent) — captured as C-001, not left as a clarification marker, per canonical-source unification.

--json class; fix-2+small-guard for OptionInfo; fold config siblings in) and are encoded as C-005 / C-006 / FR-004.

  • Items marked incomplete require spec updates before /spec-kitty.plan.
  • Content Quality note: this is CLI infrastructure work, so user-observable
  • The pervasive --json machine contract (envelope shape, exit code, stream
  • Three scope forks were ratified by the operator pre-spec (expand+close the